Bally CFTBL (WPC) 1992 Refurbishing Project!

CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON

New KISS plastic installed

New Snackbar plastic installed

New mirror installed

Bumper Mods - planned

CFTBL - Creature From The Black Lagoon was an unexpected purchase made at the end of 2007. There appeared an opportunity in the vicinity
of where I live, nearly a mil from my home was a WPC (Williams Pinball Computer) pinball available. When I had started to go for pinball events where mostly "modern"
pinballs is used in the competitons, or as I call it "new school pinball >1985", I thought that I needed a WPC machine to practice
my pinball skills on. Note: In the early 90s, Williams and Bally use the same MPU (Main Processor Unit) motherboard in all its pinball
machines, i.e. WPC (Williams Pinball Computer) motherboard.

This machine has never been out on a public lounge, instead it has been used as a show machine at a operators office and when
business was closed down one of the employs bought it for private use at home. The machine is in need of a playfield shop
and Kiss and Snack Bar plastics need to be replaced with new ones. Some wear can be found around the Snack Bar hole. Cliffys
Snack Bar hole protector will be installed.

Notes: In 2007, designer John Trudeau shared this story with us about one of the people on the backglass: As we didn't get the
rights to the actors' likenesses, I asked Kevin (O'Connor) to see what he could do. I gave him a picture of my son, who was still
in his teens at the time, and asked him to try to age him a little and fit his likeness onto the actor (Richard Carlson) in the
pith helmet. It came out fine for me at the time and it really does now (he's 34) resemble my son quite a bit.